I am trying to migrate to the Zimbra Open Source from iMail and trying to use imapsync to do the migration. I can get the imapsync to make a connection to both sides but nothing transfers.
I have pasted the response below. Thanks for any help :)

I was wondering since I am not having any luck with imapsync, can someone recommend another tool I can use.

Thanks
dj

10-01-2007, 11:03 AM

raj

follwing command wored for me from IMAIL to ZIMBRA sync:
Please pay special attention to "/tb" flag, --sep1 . --prefix1 INBOX. flag and ommition of "--syncinternaldates"
this command worked for me FROM windows 2000/imail server which had all Perl modules installed which were needed for IMAPSYNC

Sorry it took me a while to reply back but another project jumped up and I am just now getting back to try this. It worked by the way :) Thanks:) Another question on imapsync. Will it automatically keep syncing the two inboxs or do I need to run it every so often to keep the two mailboxes the same? It will be a week or two now before we bring Zimbra online to replace our imail server. Just wondering. Thanks.
dj

10-17-2007, 08:59 AM

dkarp

No, imapsync stops working when it exits. You'll have to run it again to pick up any changes.

10-17-2007, 09:49 AM

mmorse

You'd have to make it a cron etc to re-run every so often if that's your desired functionality - abit a lot of cpu usage to do so...
Thus you'll want to run it once more just as your migrating them - to get the mail that has come in during the meantime.

It's faster when it's only comparing and not transferring, so it should take less time each time you run it, if you do so like once the day before migration, then the day of etc.

follwing command wored for me from IMAIL to ZIMBRA sync:
Please pay special attention to "/tb" flag, --sep1 . --prefix1 INBOX. flag and ommition of "--syncinternaldates"
this command worked for me FROM windows 2000/imail server which had all Perl modules installed which were needed for IMAPSYNC